[Adobe-source-devel] ASL and menus

[David C. <unc...@un...>]

How much thought has gone into using ASL for creating and managing 
menus? It seems like a logical extension to the current work with 
dialogs. I really like the idea of using sheets to enable and disable 
menu items.

My main question is, how would it handle changing the user focus? It 
seems like each focusable object would have a dictionary of values, and 
the sheet would be updated to point to the appropriate dictionary when 
the focus changes. But I haven't learned enough about Adam yet to take 
this idea much farther than that initial concept.

Example: the enabled state of the Undo command would be tied to whether 
there is anything to undo, or more technically, if the size of the 
current focus' undo stack is greater than zero.

This all reminds me a lot of Cocoa bindings. Is this coincidental, or 
were bindings an influence in the design of ASL?

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David Catmull
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